Well yeah it's not something for higher difficulties because you have to optimize everything.
But it does what he asked for.
I had 5 original cities and another 5 annexed cities. Had about 1 military unit in every city and no military units outside. Combined with nice trade I had an easy 150GPT and 5000 reserve gold.
I played defensive and boosted my tech so my army was still bigger than that of my enemies so nobody dared attacking me. In the odd case I did had to go to war my GPT would easily drop back to 40.
Though I think it only gained me about 30GPT to have my armies upkeep go down by garrisoning. Most of the income was from trade. Had about 7 ivory and 7 furs available in my empire for trade.
But it does what he asked for.
I had 5 original cities and another 5 annexed cities. Had about 1 military unit in every city and no military units outside. Combined with nice trade I had an easy 150GPT and 5000 reserve gold.
I played defensive and boosted my tech so my army was still bigger than that of my enemies so nobody dared attacking me. In the odd case I did had to go to war my GPT would easily drop back to 40.
Though I think it only gained me about 30GPT to have my armies upkeep go down by garrisoning. Most of the income was from trade. Had about 7 ivory and 7 furs available in my empire for trade.